Protecting Powers: Emergency Intervention for Children's by Judith Masson, Deborah McGovern, Kathy Pick, Maureen Winn

By Judith Masson, Deborah McGovern, Kathy Pick, Maureen Winn Oakley

The e-book relies on study tasks on emergency intervention, which have been conducted via the writer and her colleagues. The experiences give you the foundation for the 3 subject matters within the ebook: Inter-agency operating; Perceptions of protection; and location and source matters. the mix of quantitative and qualitative learn permits a close photo of perform that is going past an account of what occurs, to discover the perceptions, understandings and reviews of the practitioners who make those judgements, as social employees, law enforcement officials magistrates’ felony advisers or magistrates, and of the attorneys who suggest social employees and oldsters.

The publication offers a severe account of present perform in emergency baby security, it identifies strong perform and make proposals for reform.

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The magistrates refused to consider his application and he applied for Judicial Review. Lord Widgery commented that the statute was not very clear but suggested that parents were not excluded from making such applications. However, he took the view that it was not necessary for parents to go to such lengths because, ‘the arm of the court is quite long enough to stop a local authority from using a power intended to deal with emergencies, on a long term or unfair basis’ (R v. Lincoln (Kesteven) County Justices, ex parte M 1976).

1) but most of these did not routinely analyse their figures. Apart from the Act and the Circular, there are few references to police protection in government guidance, leaving the use and effect of the power obscure. There is no specific mention of children in police protection in the Codes of Practice issued under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. It is unclear whether Code C, Detention, treatment and questioning of people by police officers, applies to them. Children in police protection are not ‘in custody’ or ‘detained’ by the police, but neither are they at the police station voluntarily nor free to leave at any time.

Local authorities also have their own units which inspect and review the services they provide. 25) central government measured local authority performance against targets, for example on placement stability. The administration of the courts is inspected by Her Majesty’s Courts Service Inspectorate, but this organisation has no remit in relation to judicial decisions. Inspections of police services are undertaken by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and data on specific police action has to be reported to the Home Office.

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